This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
The life of the Prophet Mohammed (Sws) is known to us by texts of the Muslim tradition: the Koran and the Sirawhich is traditional biography. The latter, written between the 8th and 9th century is organized in the form of a chronological account, multiplying anecdotes and other details on the life of the Prophet.
The acts and words of the prophet are in the Hadîths, the whole forms the Sunnathat is to say tradition. The Hadîths are first transmitted orally and then gathered and fixed in writing between the 8th and 9th centuries. 1. Mohammed, prophet of Islam a. Mohammed’s youth Prophet Mohammed (Sws) was born towards 570 In Mecca, a commercial city of the Arabian peninsula, important thanks to its fairs and its pagan temple of Kaaba and where the Arabs, hitherto polytheistic, go on a pilgrimage.
Very young orphan, Muhammad works for his uncle and becomes a caravan. During his trips, he met Christians and Jews and then began to take an interest in religious issues. At 25 he marries a rich widow, Khadidja. However, he continues to lead a life as a merchant. b. The revelation he appreciates withdrawing in the desert to meditate. And, in 611around the age of 40, he received a revelation, on the Mont Hiranear Mecca. Angel Gabriel would have appeared to him and would have announced that he was the envoy of God, prophet of Allah. He would have ordered him to announce to men the existence of Allah (which means God in Arabic). c. The last of the prophets Sidna Mohammed (SWS) begins to announce to the inhabitants of Mecca the words he says to have received from God. He recommends “submission to God”, that is to say to Islam. He considers himself the last of the prophets (people who deliver a divine message) coming after the Jewish prophets like Abraham, Moses and Jesus.
